Giant Buddha
This Daibutsu (Giant Buddha) is located on Mount Nokogiri, right on a small peninsula in the province of Chiba. You can get there by train from the station called Hamakanaya but I think the best option is to take a boat from Kurihama. To access the port Kurihama you take a bus from the station Keikyu Kurihama and it took about 15 minutes. The crossing takes 35 minutes and costs 700 yen (and often more or less every hour). When we arrived, we finally got to the base of the mountain by taking a little walk. There, we took a cable car to reach the summit of Mount Nokogiri. My advice, though, is to get a one-way ticket from a different route. The views from the hill are stunning. On the road leading from the top to the square where the Buddha is located is another artistic wonder: 1500 Buddhist stone figures carved by Jingoro Eirei Ono (between 1779 and 1798. These sculptures punctuate all the way down stairs. There, we saw the lovely landscape and the sea and we could also see this Buddha which measures 31.05 meters. On the other hand, there is also the giant Buddha of Nara (more famous than this)which measures 18.8 and Kamakura (also more famous) 13.35. In 1783, this Buddha was built. It is a symbol for peace and tranquility.
